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Why sewage may hold the key to tracking diseases far beyond COVID-19

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The future of disease tracking is going down the drain — literally. Flushed with success over detecting coronavirus in wastewater, and even specific variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, researchers are now eyeing our collective poop to monitor a wide variety of health threats.

Before the pandemic, wastewater surveillance was a smaller field, primarily focused on testing for drugs or mapping microbial ecosystems. But these researchers were tracking specific health threats in specific places — opioids in parts

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Liverpool news: Reds icon retired at 31 to to focus on tattoos and sewage | Football | Sport

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Liverpool legend Daniel Agger turned his nose up at traditional post-retirement plans when calling time on his playing days. While many of his former team-mates have transitioned to punditry or coaching, the Dane poured his heart into tattoos and sewage instead.

Agger spent the prime years of his career at Anfield, making just shy of 250 appearances for the Reds. Adored by fans for his no-nonsense approach, the centre-back bookended his career with spells at Brondby and retired in 2016.

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Fascinating charts show how spread of Covid in sewage has barely changed over the last 12 months

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The prevalence of the coronavirus in England’s wastewater has barely changed over the last six months, despite the explosion of Omicron.

Sewage samples analysed by the UK Health Security Agency show small fluctuations in virus levels since June, reflecting changes in the nation’s Covid rates.

But the unprecedented surge in Covid cases, driven by the extremely-transmissible variant, isn’t visible in the UKHSA’s charts.

Experts told MailOnline the failure of the samples to pick up the surge in Omicron may be

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